Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.